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71 hi War No. 283 f.' ww Morning! Il's II lncsil( i. inpntl 29. l7f) 3 Sections 26 Pages 15 Cents
Insight
M. U. prepares
to combat dip
in enrollment
By Tom Wolf
Mlssourian staff writer
The Hazelwood School District hugs the Missouri
River across 76 square miles ( 30 square kilometers) of
North St Lotus County
Fueled by high postwar fertility rates and the
burgeoning McDonnell- Dougla- s aircraft industry, this
largely middle- incom- e district's enrollment grew at a
25 percent rate during a penod in the 1960s
" We built classrooms as fast as we could," says
Francis Huss, assistant superintendent for the state's
fifth largest district " We even hired teachers before
we knew exactly what they'd be teaching "
But with recent birthrates dropping below the 1936
depression- er- a low, Huss now talks of teacher layoffs
and shrinking budgets Enrollments continue to
decline, Huss says, despite the addition of 800 new
addresses in Hazelwood's district last year.
" Each new house would have meant an average of
2 9 students for the public schools just a few years
M. U.: Looking ahead
ago," Huss says " Now it takes two houses just to
produce one "
With many school districts experiencing similar
declines, the statewide decrease in the number of 18- year-- olds
should closely parallel a national drop of 25
percent by 1992
But while districts such as Hazelwood are adjusting
to a crash diet of fewer pupils, college administrators,
including those at the University, are wondering where
and how many high school graduates will attend post- seconda- ry
institutions
Because state funding is tied closely to enrollment,
the answer to that question likely will have a
significant impact on the University's 6,000- memb- er
faculty and staff, its numerous programs and, some
say, its quality as well
The answer also will have an impact on the places
where faculty, staff andstudents eat, shop and pay
rent
But whether the University will experience.
( See M. U., Page 12A) pfcetefibtfSra& aby'nmaBfcGsire I
Friday9s fathering9 no meeting, Landrnm says
By Rhonda Stearfey
Mlssourian staff writer
The chairman of the Columbia Special
Downtown Business District Commission
Tuesday explained a closed commission
meeting held last week that apparently violated
the city's open meetings law.
Mark Landrum, president of' the First
National Bank, told commission members and
Assistant City Manager Charlie Hargrove he
had no intention of holding a meeting Friday
morning when five members gathered in his
office to discuss his views on the, development of
the Flat Branch area
Section 2 041 of the Code of Columbia says
"... all meetings of the City Council and all
boards and commissions shall be open to the
pubhc"
However, Landrum repeatedly has said there
was no intention of holding a meeting. " None of
us even thought we had a meeting "
Landrum attended the Land Clearance for
Redevelopment Authority session Thursday
night to hear a presentation on Flat Branch He
said a number of questions remained unan-swered
about the project and that he requested
an adjournment in order to consult the com-mission's
board of directors
He called board members Thursday night
after the Flat Branch meeting and succeeded in
reaching three
" I had a very tight time schedule Friday and
because of the time pressure, I asked those
three to come into mv office at 9 15,' Landrum
said
Meanwhile, commission member David Bear
had heard over a local radio station that the Flat
Branch vote would be delayed until Landrum
contacted his " constituency " " I just went over
to find out what time the meeting was." Bear
said, " and when I walked m, it was in progress '
Bear said, " It was Landrum's job to set up the
meeting the proper way But he was tired and he
had a very busy day He just made a mistake
plain and simple '
However Bear said he appreciated Lan
drum s apologv Mondav to the commission He
t Landrum) had the best intentions when he did
what he did He was anxious to let us know how
he felt about the Flat Branch issue and felt it
was important to talk to us '
After Bear came into the session, a fifth
member, Sid Neate appeared
Iib town
2 p. m. and 8: 13 p. m. Saloon,
Terry Twyman's play about an
1871 town on the Chisholm Trail,
Lyceum Theater at Arrow Rock.
Matinee $ 4 Evening per-formance
$ 4 50
7 pm. Boone County Advisory
Commission, Ann Hawkins
Gentry Building
Movielistings on Page 11A
Imside today
Pardon sought
President Carter may be asked
to pardon four Puerto Ricans
imprisoned for a shooting attack
on Congress in the 1950s. See
story on Page 3A.
Center opens
Ayatollah Khomeini has ap-pointed
a religious trouble- shoot- er
for the strife- tor- n Kur-dish
region of Iran. See story on
PagellA
He's no animal
John Corker doesn't grunt or
drool, but he still loves to hit of
the gridiron. The Oklahoma State
linebacker talks about his love
football See story on PageSA
Mediator named
The new Columbia Area Career
Center opened its doors for its
first full day Tuesday, providing
250 area students with complete
vocational education See story
on Page 10A
British discuss
Irish terrorists
From our wire services
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
met Tuesday with key ministers in
London to discuss Britain's response to
the murder of Earl Mountbatten of
Burma and 22 other persons by Irish
Republican Army terrorists, while the
latest salvo in the IRA's terror attack
rang out in Belgium
In Brussels, terrorists blew up an
outdoor stage in the historic Grand
Place just minutes before a British
military band was to give a concert
Police said 16 persons were injured.
Officials said the bomb was tuned to
I go off during the concert and would
have taken a much higher casualty toll
had it not been for a traffic jam that
delayed the band's arrival and the start
of the program.
Meanwhile, the Ulster Freedom
Fighters, a hard- lin- e Protestant
organization, vowed to start bombing
Catholic areas at midnight to avenge
Monday's deaths.
The double- bom- b ambush that killed
18 soldiers and one civilian Monday at
Warren Point Lough, less than 200
yards ( 180 meters) from the border
with Ireland, was th? worst single
massacre in the 10 years of Ulster's
sectarian violence.
The first bomb, planted in a load of
hay parked at the side of a busy road
beside the lake, blew up as a three- -
truck army convoy passed. It blasted
the lead vehicle and killed sis soldiers
I More soldiers rushed to the scene in a
fleet of Land Rovers Minutes later, a
second, larger bomb less than 109 yWds
( SO meters) away blasted an abandoned
cottage to fragments, killing another 12
men.
In the midst of the confusion, soldiers
fought a running battle across the
border lake with snipers A tourist on a J fishing holiday died in the cross- fir- e.
The IRA said it used 1,500 pounds ( 675
kilograms) of explosives in the double- bom- b
ambush at Warren Point Police
were investigating the theory that the
two bombs may have been detonated by
remote control from a vantage point
across the border in the Irish Republic
The IRA also claimed responsibility
for the bomb that shattered the
Mountbatten boat off Sligo in the Irish
Republic, killing the distinguished
Briton sailor- statesma- n, a grandson, a
boatman and the dowager Duchess of
Brabourne, Mountbatten's daughter's
mother- in- la- w
Dozens of police investigators
scoured the gentle green coastline in
Mullagfamore, Ireland, Tuesday for
dues to the explosion which killed
Mountbatten, but they reported no
significant leads.
They also were conducting house- to- hou- se
inquiries in several villages in
this part of northwestern Ireland,
seeking the Republican terrorist who
blew up Mountbatten's 29- fo- ot ( 8 7- met- ers)
fishing boat, but no arrests
were imminent.
Unless the government moved
quickly to stifle the IRA, the Protestant
Ulster Defense Association threatened
Tuesday to " take the law into its own
hand."
The defense association also called
for the removal of Humphrey Atkins,
the secretary of state for Northern
Ireland.
" On his own admission he had no
knowledge of the Ulster situation"
when appointed, an association
statement said.
Pope John Paul II Tuesday called the
" tragic murder" of Lord Mountbatten
" an insult to human dignity" and other
world leaders condemned the
statesman's slaying as a " senseless act
of violence."
Carter wants
for defense
By Richard Burt
New York Times
WASHINGTON The Carter ad-ministration
is taking steps to increase
military spending for 1980, government
officials said Tuesday, but they denied
suggestions that the White House
already had decided to present
Congress with a multibillion dollar
supplemental defense request
The officials said there was a con-sensus
among high- lev- el ad-ministration
aides that extra funds for
the fiscal year 1980 budget would be
necessary in order to meet President
Carter's earlier commitment of in
creasing military spending b three
percent annually
However, they insisted that officials
had not determined how much monev
would be neeaed to meet this objectiv e
and said that Carter was not expected
to resolve thu question until Congress
returns to Washington next week
The question of whether the ad-ministration
should seek an increase in
the 1980 defense budget has taken on
unusual political importance due to the
Senate debate over the new Soviet- Amenc- ar
strategic arms treatv
Sen Sam Nunn, D- G- a, and other pro- defen- se
senators have told the White
House that they might not be willing to
vote for the accord unless Carter
committed himself to increasing
military spending bv 4 or 5 percent a
year
Although Carter evidentlv has not
decided whether to accede to Nunn s
request, the officials said it was
unlikely that he would urge a spending
increase of this magnitude Instead
thev contended that the White Housi
probablv would agree onlv to restore
monev in the defense budget that has.
been eroded bv a greater- than- epect- ed
inflation rate
If, as expected. Carter does agree to
increase the 1980 budget this could
confront the Pentagon s allies in the
Senate with a difficult dilemma While
Nunn and other skeptics of the arms
treatv are pushing tor a larger militarv
budget, it is uncertain whether
Congress as a whole would be willing to
back a several billion- doll- ar increase in
military spending
Thus, bv forwarding a supplemental
budget to Congress Carter would be
forcing Nunn and like- mind- ed senators
to find support for additional fundi
from the entire Congress If this effort
failed, it would be difficult for those
senators to blame the administration
The administration s original defense
budget request for 1980 was $ 122 7
billion an amount that included a 3
percent increase in spending after
accounting for inflation But official" 1
now acknowledge that the ad
ministration underestimated the actual
rate of inflation and that extra funds
would be required to achieve the three
percent growth objective
Officials said that if Carter decides to
stick by a real 3 percent increase in
military spending, the administration
would probablv have to request as
much as $ 4 billion in additional funds
from Congress To meet Nunn s
demand for a 5 percent increase an
extra $ 6 billion m spending would be
required thev said
uettyKOba
Vernon Weatherman is giving service stations a good name
Service station pumps good will
ByStepSiaEieLfeber
fcQssoarian staff writer
Who says oil companies are ripping
off the public7
At Vernon's APCO service station,
No. 2 Business Loop 70 East, it works
the other wpy around
When Vemon Weatherman, station
owner, went out to clear a pump for a
customer and pick up trash, he noticed
the brown bag he was about to throw
away felt a bit too heavy to be " just"
trash.
Opening the crumpled sack, he found
more than $ 200 worth of green trash
dollar bills and reported it to the
police
" And you're calling9" he says the
startled dispatcher asked him.
The incident made Weatherman's
day, he says, especially when he
learned the money belonged to an
elderly Columbia man who had
collected it for a church benefit He had
left the money at the pump 2'-- i hours
earlier while filling a gas can
" That kind of cheered me up for the
whole day," Weatherman says Earlier
Tuesday, he lost ( 3 worth of gasoline to
a customer who left without paying
Weatherman says he turned the
money in because he " figured whoever
lost it needed it It might have made a
real hardship on them " He says he
does not think a reward was offered.
Weatherman's wife, Mary, said the
return of the money was important to
the elderly man " To eld people, it
means a lot," Mrs Weatherman said.
Weatherman says he doesn't regret
turning the money in, but would like
people to know one thing about the
incident at least his. service station
isn't making money off hapless con-sumers

71 hi War No. 283 f.' ww Morning! Il's II lncsil( i. inpntl 29. l7f) 3 Sections 26 Pages 15 Cents
Insight
M. U. prepares
to combat dip
in enrollment
By Tom Wolf
Mlssourian staff writer
The Hazelwood School District hugs the Missouri
River across 76 square miles ( 30 square kilometers) of
North St Lotus County
Fueled by high postwar fertility rates and the
burgeoning McDonnell- Dougla- s aircraft industry, this
largely middle- incom- e district's enrollment grew at a
25 percent rate during a penod in the 1960s
" We built classrooms as fast as we could," says
Francis Huss, assistant superintendent for the state's
fifth largest district " We even hired teachers before
we knew exactly what they'd be teaching "
But with recent birthrates dropping below the 1936
depression- er- a low, Huss now talks of teacher layoffs
and shrinking budgets Enrollments continue to
decline, Huss says, despite the addition of 800 new
addresses in Hazelwood's district last year.
" Each new house would have meant an average of
2 9 students for the public schools just a few years
M. U.: Looking ahead
ago," Huss says " Now it takes two houses just to
produce one "
With many school districts experiencing similar
declines, the statewide decrease in the number of 18- year-- olds
should closely parallel a national drop of 25
percent by 1992
But while districts such as Hazelwood are adjusting
to a crash diet of fewer pupils, college administrators,
including those at the University, are wondering where
and how many high school graduates will attend post- seconda- ry
institutions
Because state funding is tied closely to enrollment,
the answer to that question likely will have a
significant impact on the University's 6,000- memb- er
faculty and staff, its numerous programs and, some
say, its quality as well
The answer also will have an impact on the places
where faculty, staff andstudents eat, shop and pay
rent
But whether the University will experience.
( See M. U., Page 12A) pfcetefibtfSra& aby'nmaBfcGsire I
Friday9s fathering9 no meeting, Landrnm says
By Rhonda Stearfey
Mlssourian staff writer
The chairman of the Columbia Special
Downtown Business District Commission
Tuesday explained a closed commission
meeting held last week that apparently violated
the city's open meetings law.
Mark Landrum, president of' the First
National Bank, told commission members and
Assistant City Manager Charlie Hargrove he
had no intention of holding a meeting Friday
morning when five members gathered in his
office to discuss his views on the, development of
the Flat Branch area
Section 2 041 of the Code of Columbia says
"... all meetings of the City Council and all
boards and commissions shall be open to the
pubhc"
However, Landrum repeatedly has said there
was no intention of holding a meeting. " None of
us even thought we had a meeting "
Landrum attended the Land Clearance for
Redevelopment Authority session Thursday
night to hear a presentation on Flat Branch He
said a number of questions remained unan-swered
about the project and that he requested
an adjournment in order to consult the com-mission's
board of directors
He called board members Thursday night
after the Flat Branch meeting and succeeded in
reaching three
" I had a very tight time schedule Friday and
because of the time pressure, I asked those
three to come into mv office at 9 15,' Landrum
said
Meanwhile, commission member David Bear
had heard over a local radio station that the Flat
Branch vote would be delayed until Landrum
contacted his " constituency " " I just went over
to find out what time the meeting was." Bear
said, " and when I walked m, it was in progress '
Bear said, " It was Landrum's job to set up the
meeting the proper way But he was tired and he
had a very busy day He just made a mistake
plain and simple '
However Bear said he appreciated Lan
drum s apologv Mondav to the commission He
t Landrum) had the best intentions when he did
what he did He was anxious to let us know how
he felt about the Flat Branch issue and felt it
was important to talk to us '
After Bear came into the session, a fifth
member, Sid Neate appeared
Iib town
2 p. m. and 8: 13 p. m. Saloon,
Terry Twyman's play about an
1871 town on the Chisholm Trail,
Lyceum Theater at Arrow Rock.
Matinee $ 4 Evening per-formance
$ 4 50
7 pm. Boone County Advisory
Commission, Ann Hawkins
Gentry Building
Movielistings on Page 11A
Imside today
Pardon sought
President Carter may be asked
to pardon four Puerto Ricans
imprisoned for a shooting attack
on Congress in the 1950s. See
story on Page 3A.
Center opens
Ayatollah Khomeini has ap-pointed
a religious trouble- shoot- er
for the strife- tor- n Kur-dish
region of Iran. See story on
PagellA
He's no animal
John Corker doesn't grunt or
drool, but he still loves to hit of
the gridiron. The Oklahoma State
linebacker talks about his love
football See story on PageSA
Mediator named
The new Columbia Area Career
Center opened its doors for its
first full day Tuesday, providing
250 area students with complete
vocational education See story
on Page 10A
British discuss
Irish terrorists
From our wire services
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
met Tuesday with key ministers in
London to discuss Britain's response to
the murder of Earl Mountbatten of
Burma and 22 other persons by Irish
Republican Army terrorists, while the
latest salvo in the IRA's terror attack
rang out in Belgium
In Brussels, terrorists blew up an
outdoor stage in the historic Grand
Place just minutes before a British
military band was to give a concert
Police said 16 persons were injured.
Officials said the bomb was tuned to
I go off during the concert and would
have taken a much higher casualty toll
had it not been for a traffic jam that
delayed the band's arrival and the start
of the program.
Meanwhile, the Ulster Freedom
Fighters, a hard- lin- e Protestant
organization, vowed to start bombing
Catholic areas at midnight to avenge
Monday's deaths.
The double- bom- b ambush that killed
18 soldiers and one civilian Monday at
Warren Point Lough, less than 200
yards ( 180 meters) from the border
with Ireland, was th? worst single
massacre in the 10 years of Ulster's
sectarian violence.
The first bomb, planted in a load of
hay parked at the side of a busy road
beside the lake, blew up as a three- -
truck army convoy passed. It blasted
the lead vehicle and killed sis soldiers
I More soldiers rushed to the scene in a
fleet of Land Rovers Minutes later, a
second, larger bomb less than 109 yWds
( SO meters) away blasted an abandoned
cottage to fragments, killing another 12
men.
In the midst of the confusion, soldiers
fought a running battle across the
border lake with snipers A tourist on a J fishing holiday died in the cross- fir- e.
The IRA said it used 1,500 pounds ( 675
kilograms) of explosives in the double- bom- b
ambush at Warren Point Police
were investigating the theory that the
two bombs may have been detonated by
remote control from a vantage point
across the border in the Irish Republic
The IRA also claimed responsibility
for the bomb that shattered the
Mountbatten boat off Sligo in the Irish
Republic, killing the distinguished
Briton sailor- statesma- n, a grandson, a
boatman and the dowager Duchess of
Brabourne, Mountbatten's daughter's
mother- in- la- w
Dozens of police investigators
scoured the gentle green coastline in
Mullagfamore, Ireland, Tuesday for
dues to the explosion which killed
Mountbatten, but they reported no
significant leads.
They also were conducting house- to- hou- se
inquiries in several villages in
this part of northwestern Ireland,
seeking the Republican terrorist who
blew up Mountbatten's 29- fo- ot ( 8 7- met- ers)
fishing boat, but no arrests
were imminent.
Unless the government moved
quickly to stifle the IRA, the Protestant
Ulster Defense Association threatened
Tuesday to " take the law into its own
hand."
The defense association also called
for the removal of Humphrey Atkins,
the secretary of state for Northern
Ireland.
" On his own admission he had no
knowledge of the Ulster situation"
when appointed, an association
statement said.
Pope John Paul II Tuesday called the
" tragic murder" of Lord Mountbatten
" an insult to human dignity" and other
world leaders condemned the
statesman's slaying as a " senseless act
of violence."
Carter wants
for defense
By Richard Burt
New York Times
WASHINGTON The Carter ad-ministration
is taking steps to increase
military spending for 1980, government
officials said Tuesday, but they denied
suggestions that the White House
already had decided to present
Congress with a multibillion dollar
supplemental defense request
The officials said there was a con-sensus
among high- lev- el ad-ministration
aides that extra funds for
the fiscal year 1980 budget would be
necessary in order to meet President
Carter's earlier commitment of in
creasing military spending b three
percent annually
However, they insisted that officials
had not determined how much monev
would be neeaed to meet this objectiv e
and said that Carter was not expected
to resolve thu question until Congress
returns to Washington next week
The question of whether the ad-ministration
should seek an increase in
the 1980 defense budget has taken on
unusual political importance due to the
Senate debate over the new Soviet- Amenc- ar
strategic arms treatv
Sen Sam Nunn, D- G- a, and other pro- defen- se
senators have told the White
House that they might not be willing to
vote for the accord unless Carter
committed himself to increasing
military spending bv 4 or 5 percent a
year
Although Carter evidentlv has not
decided whether to accede to Nunn s
request, the officials said it was
unlikely that he would urge a spending
increase of this magnitude Instead
thev contended that the White Housi
probablv would agree onlv to restore
monev in the defense budget that has.
been eroded bv a greater- than- epect- ed
inflation rate
If, as expected. Carter does agree to
increase the 1980 budget this could
confront the Pentagon s allies in the
Senate with a difficult dilemma While
Nunn and other skeptics of the arms
treatv are pushing tor a larger militarv
budget, it is uncertain whether
Congress as a whole would be willing to
back a several billion- doll- ar increase in
military spending
Thus, bv forwarding a supplemental
budget to Congress Carter would be
forcing Nunn and like- mind- ed senators
to find support for additional fundi
from the entire Congress If this effort
failed, it would be difficult for those
senators to blame the administration
The administration s original defense
budget request for 1980 was $ 122 7
billion an amount that included a 3
percent increase in spending after
accounting for inflation But official" 1
now acknowledge that the ad
ministration underestimated the actual
rate of inflation and that extra funds
would be required to achieve the three
percent growth objective
Officials said that if Carter decides to
stick by a real 3 percent increase in
military spending, the administration
would probablv have to request as
much as $ 4 billion in additional funds
from Congress To meet Nunn s
demand for a 5 percent increase an
extra $ 6 billion m spending would be
required thev said
uettyKOba
Vernon Weatherman is giving service stations a good name
Service station pumps good will
ByStepSiaEieLfeber
fcQssoarian staff writer
Who says oil companies are ripping
off the public7
At Vernon's APCO service station,
No. 2 Business Loop 70 East, it works
the other wpy around
When Vemon Weatherman, station
owner, went out to clear a pump for a
customer and pick up trash, he noticed
the brown bag he was about to throw
away felt a bit too heavy to be " just"
trash.
Opening the crumpled sack, he found
more than $ 200 worth of green trash
dollar bills and reported it to the
police
" And you're calling9" he says the
startled dispatcher asked him.
The incident made Weatherman's
day, he says, especially when he
learned the money belonged to an
elderly Columbia man who had
collected it for a church benefit He had
left the money at the pump 2'-- i hours
earlier while filling a gas can
" That kind of cheered me up for the
whole day," Weatherman says Earlier
Tuesday, he lost ( 3 worth of gasoline to
a customer who left without paying
Weatherman says he turned the
money in because he " figured whoever
lost it needed it It might have made a
real hardship on them " He says he
does not think a reward was offered.
Weatherman's wife, Mary, said the
return of the money was important to
the elderly man " To eld people, it
means a lot," Mrs Weatherman said.
Weatherman says he doesn't regret
turning the money in, but would like
people to know one thing about the
incident at least his. service station
isn't making money off hapless con-sumers